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ENVELOPE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.

No. 308,672. Patented Dec. 2, 1884.-

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DANIEL H. HOWD, OF PATERSON, NEW' JERSEY.

ENVELOPE FOR PHOTOGRAPHS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 308,672, dated December2, 1884.

Application filed April 4, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL H. HOWD, of Paterson, in the State of NewJersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Envelopesfor Photographs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved envelope which isspecially designed for mailing photographs and similar articles-such asChristmas and Easter cards, &c.; and the invention consists of anenvelope the body or main part of which is re-enforced by an interiorlining of pasteboard that is inclosed in a pocket formed by an interiorcovering-flap, as will more fully appear hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a perspective View ofmy improved envelope for photographs. Fig. 2 is a front view of thesame, shown with the flaps of the envelope in open position, and Fig. 3is a horizontal section of the same on line a; m, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

A in the drawings represents an envelope of that class that is open atone of its ends, and of a size and shape corresponding to the size ofthe photographs to be mailed therein. The central oblong body or mainportion, a, of the envelope is re-enforced by an interiorlayer ofpasteboard, b, which is covered by an interior layer of paper, cl, thatis pasted at two or more sides by flaps d d to the end flaps, sideflaps, or end and side flaps of the envelope, as shown in Fig. 2. Theend flap d, that is pasted over the open end flap a of the envelope,re-enforces said flap a, so as to admit the ready opening and closing ofthe same, either for inspection while the photograph passes through themail, or when the same is taken out for exhibition and replaced. Thecovering or layer of paper d forms, with the body or main part a of theenvelope,a pocket that retains the re-enforcing layer 1) of pasteboard,and incloses the same, so that it cannot be seen when handling theenvelope.

For mailing a photograph the same is simply inserted into the envelopeand the end flap a inserted looselyover the photograph into theenvelope, which admits inspection of the envelope by the post-officeofficials, while protecting the photograph or other card againstbreakage or other injury while in the mail.

Having thus described my invention,I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- The combination, with an envelope, of an interiorlayer of pasteboard corresponding in size to the oblong body or mainpart of the envelope, and of a covering-layer of paper extending overthe stiffening-layer of pasteboard and attached to the flaps of theenvelope, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL H. HOXVD.

\Vitnesses:

PAUL GoErEL, CARL KARP.

